Researcher: A number of studies have suggested that. On average, clients in short-term psychotherapy show similar levels of improvement regardless of the kind of psychotherapy they receive. So any client improvement in short-term psychotherapy must be the result of some aspect or aspects of therapy that are common to all psychotherapies for example, the presence of someone who listens and gives attention to the client.
Which one of the following, if true, would most weaken the researcher's argument?
(A) The methods by which the studies measured whether clients improved primarily concerned immediate symptom relief and failed to address other important kinds of improvement
(B) On average, clients improve more dramatically when they receive long-term psychotherapy, a year or longer in duration, than when clients receive short-term psychotherapy.
(C) The studies found that psychotherapy by a trained counselor does not result in any greater improvement, on average, among clients than does simple counseling by an untrained layperson.
(D) The specific techniques and interventions used by therapists practicing different kinds of psychotherapy differ dramatically.
(E) More-experienced therapists tend to use a wider range of techniques and interventions in psychotherapy than do inexperienced therapists.
OA is A
Please justify why D cannot be the answer.
Conclusion is :- Any client improvement in short-term pschotherapy must be the result of some aspect or aspects of therapy that are common to all pyschotherapies.
The following was my thought process, "Just because all clients in short-term psychotherapy experience similar levels of improvement, that does not mean that all types of psychotherapy share the same aspect responsible for that improvement".
D, though not clear, can hit the argument by showing specific techniques and interventions used by therapists differ dramatically ?
Thanks
Which one of the following, if true, would most weaken the researcher's argument?
(A) The methods by which the studies measured whether clients improved primarily concerned immediate symptom relief and failed to address other important kinds of improvement
(B) On average, clients improve more dramatically when they receive long-term psychotherapy, a year or longer in duration, than when clients receive short-term psychotherapy.
(C) The studies found that psychotherapy by a trained counselor does not result in any greater improvement, on average, among clients than does simple counseling by an untrained layperson.
(D) The specific techniques and interventions used by therapists practicing different kinds of psychotherapy differ dramatically.
(E) More-experienced therapists tend to use a wider range of techniques and interventions in psychotherapy than do inexperienced therapists.
OA is A
Please justify why D cannot be the answer.
Conclusion is :- Any client improvement in short-term pschotherapy must be the result of some aspect or aspects of therapy that are common to all pyschotherapies.
The following was my thought process, "Just because all clients in short-term psychotherapy experience similar levels of improvement, that does not mean that all types of psychotherapy share the same aspect responsible for that improvement".
D, though not clear, can hit the argument by showing specific techniques and interventions used by therapists differ dramatically ?
Thanks
